Quantum computing using native interaction in superconducting circuits

<p>Superconducting circuits form one of the most promising hardware platforms for building a quantum computer. As the quantum computing system gets more complex as we increase the size, employing simple circuit designs and control strategies can make the task of building a large scale quantum...

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Main Author: Tsunoda, T
Other Authors: Leek, P
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2021
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description <p>Superconducting circuits form one of the most promising hardware platforms for building a quantum computer. As the quantum computing system gets more complex as we increase the size, employing simple circuit designs and control strategies can make the task of building a large scale quantum computer easier.</p> <p>This thesis describes a novel control strategy that utilises spin-echo techniques and native interaction in superconducting circuits, which reduces the cost of calibrating pulsed two-qubit gates. Spin-echo pulses are used to rescale the always-on Hamiltonian, and the timings of spin-echo pulses encode the effective coupling strengths. In collaboration with the NMR group in Oxford, two methods for scaling this technique to large numbers of qubits were explored. In the first approach, pulse sequences for an all-to-all coupled system are obtained numerically using linear programming, and it finds the time-optimal solution for up to twenty qubits and the near time-optimal solution for up to hundreds of qubits. Another approach based on graph colouring finds the near time-optimal pulse sequence analytically, allowing pulse sequences for any number of qubits. An idea based on the Hamiltonian rescaling technique was applied to implementing the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm and error mitigation on two superconducting qubits. In contrast to previous studies, the residual dispersive coupling between qubits was used for computation instead of regarding it as a source of error.</p> <p>Lastly, the detailed dynamics of the residual dispersive coupling in superconducting circuits were investigated to predict the practicality of spin-echo-based quantum computing on superconducting circuits. The Hamiltonian rescaling protocol assumes the always-on coupling to be diagonal, such as Ising Hamiltonian, but deviation from the pure Ising interaction was observed in the strongly coupled superconducting qubits. The origin of the deviation was identified analytically, and the circuit design criteria to suppress the deviation are presented.</p>
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spelling oxford-uuid:d3af3bc0-8b66-4be9-9d58-69ee5655d0c52023-07-10T13:22:43ZQuantum computing using native interaction in superconducting circuitsThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:d3af3bc0-8b66-4be9-9d58-69ee5655d0c5Quantum computingQuantum informationPhysicsEnglishHyrax Deposit2021Tsunoda, TLeek, PBenjamin, SArdavan, AGinossar, E<p>Superconducting circuits form one of the most promising hardware platforms for building a quantum computer. As the quantum computing system gets more complex as we increase the size, employing simple circuit designs and control strategies can make the task of building a large scale quantum computer easier.</p> <p>This thesis describes a novel control strategy that utilises spin-echo techniques and native interaction in superconducting circuits, which reduces the cost of calibrating pulsed two-qubit gates. Spin-echo pulses are used to rescale the always-on Hamiltonian, and the timings of spin-echo pulses encode the effective coupling strengths. In collaboration with the NMR group in Oxford, two methods for scaling this technique to large numbers of qubits were explored. In the first approach, pulse sequences for an all-to-all coupled system are obtained numerically using linear programming, and it finds the time-optimal solution for up to twenty qubits and the near time-optimal solution for up to hundreds of qubits. Another approach based on graph colouring finds the near time-optimal pulse sequence analytically, allowing pulse sequences for any number of qubits. An idea based on the Hamiltonian rescaling technique was applied to implementing the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm and error mitigation on two superconducting qubits. In contrast to previous studies, the residual dispersive coupling between qubits was used for computation instead of regarding it as a source of error.</p> <p>Lastly, the detailed dynamics of the residual dispersive coupling in superconducting circuits were investigated to predict the practicality of spin-echo-based quantum computing on superconducting circuits. The Hamiltonian rescaling protocol assumes the always-on coupling to be diagonal, such as Ising Hamiltonian, but deviation from the pure Ising interaction was observed in the strongly coupled superconducting qubits. The origin of the deviation was identified analytically, and the circuit design criteria to suppress the deviation are presented.</p>
spellingShingle Quantum computing
Quantum information
Physics
Tsunoda, T
Quantum computing using native interaction in superconducting circuits
title Quantum computing using native interaction in superconducting circuits
title_full Quantum computing using native interaction in superconducting circuits
title_fullStr Quantum computing using native interaction in superconducting circuits
title_full_unstemmed Quantum computing using native interaction in superconducting circuits
title_short Quantum computing using native interaction in superconducting circuits
title_sort quantum computing using native interaction in superconducting circuits
topic Quantum computing
Quantum information
Physics
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